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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Today, the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC
held its vote on a Discernment policy about inclusiveness, proposed on Sept. 3..

The final vote was 51-3-11, or 51-14 for full inclusiveness. The vote would seem to accept same-sex
marriage ceremonies to be performed in the Church in the future. But it is more broadly worded.

Generally, in my own conversations, practically all younger
adult members (say under the age of 40) favored full inclusion. The church has long held openly gay and
transgender members.

The church was considered very progressive on racial issues
under Dr. Pruden as early as the late 1940s.
The church opened its current sanctuary on Christmas Sunday, 1955.

The church is located about ½ mile north of the White House,
one block south of Foundry Methodist. So
it is one of the closest major churches to the White House. The views of the congregation tend to have some
political influence.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

On an evening where I’m in a tweet storm with Trump over how
to stop North Korea’s threat to test thermonuclear weapons in the air, I found
time for this important story by Daryl Hannah on PrEP’s. Seriously, as a
blogger, I’m a lot more concerned about national security than “discrimination”. But we actually need to have someone like
Kristin Beck back in uniform in the Pentagon helping make the right decisions
on this North Korea mess.

A lot of men don’t like to keep taking them. If you’re well off, in college, 18+ and
well-liked, stick with one person you “trust”.
It’s easier to find monogamy if you can work it to your advantage. The Obamacare repeal could stop coverage for them in many cases.

Even on 18+ nights at discos, you see people leave
together.

AIDS was the nuclear weapon of my own generation

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Picture: Near Camp David, MD. And, Trump, don’t mix up Rocket Man (Kim Jong
Un) with Nano Man (Jack Andraka, as a comics hero, in the world of geeks and
medicine). Don’t mix them up in a speech.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Although Truthout is a bi strident in its calls for money to
become my left-wing voice, which I don’t need and would resent, I noted this
astonishing story by Shane Burley, “White nationalist groups are splitting over
gay inclusion.” While internal ideologies vary (about
biological destiny), there seems to be some connection to upward affiliation
and maybe even eugenics (the idea that one somehow deserves to reproduce). It’s all rather shocking. Spencer gets mentioned.

There is a complicated story about
Fox’s refusal to air an ad from a group called “Kids Pay the Price” about how “religious
freedom laws”, when they allow adoption and foster agencies to follow their
religious beliefs, simply reduce the number of kids who get adopted or find
foster care.?)

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

David Benkoff has a piece in the Daily Caller downplaying
Donald Trump’s supposed backpedaling on gay rights, all the way back to 2016,
here. A lot of denial of identity politics and
placing people into groups claiming systematic oppression. The Log Cabin Republicans tweeted this today.

There is something inevitable about all this: people who are individually competitive have
little use for identity politics and tend to be more conservative.

Thursday, September 07, 2017

A Washington Blade story by Chris Johnson reports pessimism
among LGBT dreamers (as well as asylum seekers) that Congress will restore
DACA, as in this linkposted on Facebook today by DC Center Global.

The article presents the biography of a young man from South
Korea, who says it would not be easy to deal with conscription in the South
Korean military if he had to go back.
Furthermore, it’s a testy time because of extreme tensions with North Korea.

But of course this raises the bigger question that the
entire country of South Korea faces destruction if war breaks out.

There is also a story of a young man from Mexico, and a
report of a belief that DACA rescinding is rooted in white supremacy. I still see it as a legal question, but one
that lends itself to intellectual rationalization that hides the real
problems.

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

HRC sent out an email noting that about 75000 of the “dreamers”
are LGBTQ, linkhere.

This is a difficult thing.
Our western societies don’t hold adult kids responsible for what their
parents did. Nevertheless, the tone of
comments on Trump’s own Facebook page supporting his decision is rather mean.

There is legitimate debate over whether Obama’s DACA order
was legally sustainable forever (given the lawsuit brought by several red
states). Some conservatives say that courts
could have ordered DACA closed in two months.
There is a legitimate argument that Congress must take responsibility
for this issue over the next six months.

Nevertheless, adult kids caught in the situation,, even
though they probably have good reason to believe Congress has to fix it
(Congress’s record with health care is not a good precedent) are put out
now. Employers can reasonably fear that
if they hire them, they could lose work authorization in six months. Same with
schools.

Down the road, if massive work authorization loss happens and
deportations start, we could see increase in Asylum claims, as Jason Dzubow
argued last December (post ), as long as a much larger need for housing support and quasi-sponsorship or
dependency relationships.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC will
pass out a Discernment Card to church members on Sept. 24, 2017.

Here is the text:

“The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC
welcomes people of every race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation,
marital status, age, physical and mental ability, national origin, economic
station and political ideology to full participation in the life of the church.

“’Full participation in the life of our community’ includes
all members, without exception, being fully eligible to participate in the
ordinances, blessings, benefits and responsibilities of church membership –
including communion, baptism, marriage, ordination, parent/child dedications,
and all offices and positions of leadership.

“Any individual member’s ‘full participation in the life of
our community’ does not bind any other member’s conscience on an issue about
which they may differ, but rather requires honest commitment of life together
in the commitment to life together in the community of Christ regardless of
differences.

“We re-commit ourselves to conscious efforts to feel Christ’s
welcome in our congregation, including those with whom we disagree.”

Saturday, September 02, 2017

The East Bay Express has a story about LGBT asylum seekers
obtaining assistance, including housing hosting, in the San Francisco Bay area
(with among the highest housing costs in the nation). The link is here. A number of them are from Russia.

There is also a narrative of a transgender asylum seeker fr
Chechnya who was smuggled across the border from Mexico, in a Washington Post
story by Adam Taylor, here. Getting involved in bringing someone
into the country “illegally” is not something that can be recommended out of
prudence. Maybe this is the “Rich Young
Ruler” problem, having too much to lose.

The Trump administration has added a personal interview
requirement for most green card applications, which could complicate the
process for many asylum seekers, who face waiting periods before eligibility
and may depend on the financial support of others to stay in the country (story).

Friday, September 01, 2017

The owner of a wedding cake bakery in Colorado claims he has
lost 40% of his family income and most of his employees after the Colorado
Civil Rights Commission told him to stop selling cakes or to sell to all
wedding couples as a public accommodation. The owner Jack Phillips stopped
selling cakes. The Washington Times has
the storyhere.

Um, this is the whole “religious freedom” thing. You wonder what this means to him, that
couples who don’t follow the procreation model have such a psychological effect
on “normally married” people. Everyone
shares in potential responsibility for future generations?

But it’s dangerous for government to regulate a small
business this way, too. What if I had to
make my self-published books available in braille to sell them at all? This sort of thing goes both ways.

Vox (Teresa Isabella Burton) has published a long articleabout a gathering of evangelicals (the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ERLC) and its Nashville Statement, which if you open the site, is pretty manipulative to the visitor. They expect visitors to sign it? Evangelicals have gotten "better" on some other things, like condemning the alt-right.

Thursday, August 31, 2017

There is a Montrose fund for the LGBT community in
Houston. It corresponds to Cedar Springs
in Dallas, which I know very well. A
YouTube video shows that the Montrose area is heavily flooded. I visited it many times in the 1980s. I don't think it's "that close" to a bayou as I remember, so it should drain earlier (if I have my geography right). I do wonder how well organized the tavern and bar owners are to help each other out. Caven was a big owner of clubs in Texas when I lived there in the 1980s.

The question naturally comes up, will there be housing
requests, similar to what we have seen with asylum seekers, especially from
other cities in Texas, and maybe farther away.
How would they be coordinated? Single people may be more likely to want to move permanently than large families.

I wonder if Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) could have housed evacuees.

The report separates gender identity and intersex issues and
notes that international bodies on human rights have been slow to recognize
these, in comparison to the more familiar issues of sexuality for cis-gender
people.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

The White House has set guidelines for how Trump’s “transgender
ban” in the military will proceed.

The key points seem to be that people who say they are transgender
cannot enlist, and that Mattis can remove active duty transgender troops who
are not deployable, Further, it appears
that sexual reassignment surgery will not be provided.

It’s important to remember that transgender troops are
deployed today and usually do not run into issues. Maybe unusual, but sometimes female-to-male transgender persons match men in physical capabilities, even to the point that professional sports would be possible. And Kristin Beck served as a Navy Seal as a male but did reassignment surgery after retirement (which does not seem to create objection now with the GOP).

Several transgender military members have sued already, and
more litigation is expected.

Gordon Lubold reports in the Wall Street Journalhere. The report indicates that Trump’s tweet was
motivated by the fact that enlistment of transgender people had been set to
start July 1, 2017.

The ban does not affect cis-gender gay troops, some of whom I know are deployed now (personally). And so far, no casualties.

Update: Aug. 29

The Palm Center has published a papers, explaining (1) that Mattis's discretion to retain transgender soldiers is much less than reported and (2) how the trans policy is "worse than DADT: (Slate).

But later today Mattis announced formation of a panel to determine transgender readiness guidance (CNN). Vox (Alex Ward)reports that Mattis has until Feb 21, 2018 to figure out the rules for combat readiness and that the full policy goes into effect March 23, 2018.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Pride Uganda 2017 was cancelled after careful and determined
planning, after persistent police threats. The Kuchu Times has a detailed
statement here. A good example of the heckler's veto.

The statement reports that police were concerned about
security and could not protect the festival because “sexual minorities have no
rights” as specific groups in Uganda, even if the aggressive laws have softened
a bit.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

The Washington Blade, in a story by Michael J. Lavers, is reporting the entry of at least sixteen
LGBT (some are trans) asylum seekers from Central America who came through
Mexico and arrived at the border at Nogales.
It is not clear yet how they will be assisted, whether they would go to
detention or be housed somewhere. It’s
not completely clear yet if Trump’s various EO’s matter. This blog had
discussed the idea of parole form detention here April 1.

The Blade also reports (story by Karen Ocamb) that the implementation of Trump’s tweeted
transgender ban in the military has been put on hold because of “the threat of
nuclear war with North Korea”. On July 29, I had written a Wordpress blog
posting suggesting that Trump’s transgender ban could make him look bad in facing
North Korea. Trump had written his
notorious tweet two days before DPRK’s second ICBM test and I wrote this blog
posting a couple more days after.

Jennifer Williams, a "trans Republican" has a perspective on the trans ban here (published by Log Cabin Republicans).

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

The Baltimore Transgender Alliance has created a group
called HostHome, a “network of guests, hosts and patrons”, according to a story
by Steve Charing in the Washington Bladehere.

The group apparently has some interest in raising money for
group homes. Apparently there are
individual hosts, but it was not clear from the article that it asks for hosts,
by comparison with DC Center Global and asylum seekers.

Saturday, August 05, 2017

The Trump administration has passed some guidance down on
transgender soldiers, saying they will not be allowed to reenlist, and officers
must leave when their commissions expire. Lambda Legal has announced it is
about to file legal action, as in this story today.

Rumors about this outcome were circulating today as I
attended the 2017 Outwrite LGBT Book Fair at the DC Center in Washington
DC. I’ve given some details on my Book
Reviews blog today. Transgender-related
(and gender fluidity themes seemed more in evidence this year than last, when I
had an exhibit with my “Do Ask Do Tell” series.
Yet, culturally, the transgender and fluid community circulates rather
separately from the cis-male world of a lot of dance floors (so it seemed last
night at Town).

I believe that Center Global would have held its monthly
meeting at noon (I was there around 1 PM) but there was not discussion while I
was there of asylum and hosting I have
not been able to work out a plan to assist with that so far this year, and may
sell my inherited trust house, as I have explained on other posts. This year, I did not set up a table for my “Do
Ask Do Tell” books as I had in 2016.

Canada has started accepted refugees from Chechnya (maybe these are really asylum seekers), story.

Thursday, August 03, 2017

Jeffrey Hurant, former CEO of “Rentboy.com” (link is for legal defense fund; the site no longer operates and domain name is for sale), has been
sentenced to six months in prison in federal court in Brooklyn, for promoting
prostitution. But the judge admitted, in
somewhat libertarian fashion, that Hurant had done considerable good for the
gay community in fighting AIDS and HIV with safe-sex education and had often
cooperated with law enforcement in other matters.

The story reminds one of the controversy over Backpage,
which has been used in heterosexual trafficking. Bills in Congress (reported on my BillBoushka
blog yesterday) could make websites and web service providers share more downstream
liability, carving out Section 230 exceptions.
This could indirectly affect amateur reporting on gay issues like
everything else.

Milo Yiannopoulos has reported a brutal beating of white
teens in Quincy MA which was filmed on a cellphone without a 911 call. This might be a gay bashing. Here is his link. I have sent this story on to ABC7News.

Monday, July 31, 2017

Sunday night I did enjoy a salmon dinner at Freddie’s, a
regular AGLA social event. I did have a
conversation with someone who told me he was interning at DC Center, and his
duties included working with Center Global.

I did say that I considered hosting in am inherited
Arlington VA home, but that in the suburban circumstances more removed from
regular volunteer help in DC (like around Logan Circle, etc), anyone would
probably become a dependent. There are
legal questions as to a host’s responsibilities and possible liabilities, which
need to be looked at first; and a private meeting that could have adequately
explored these has never taken place. A
new call for hosts was linked here July 19.

I am in the process of considering selling the inherited
trust house, so right now my own participation in hosting is not possible.

Today, I made a day trip to Solomon’s Island and had lunch
at the Kingfishers which I had heard about at AGLA. The town appeared to have some LGBT residents
and homeowners, but yet was conservative.
After lunch, I drove around and I met an older woman near the museum and
got into a conversation about Trump right after my iPhone beeped Scaramucci’s
firing. She supported Trump, and felt
that Obama had let North Korea build its missles right under his nose.

Friday, July 28, 2017

The Department of Justice, under beleaguered Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, has told the 2nd Circuit that Title VII of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act only protects individuals in most employment and
housing issues from discrimination because of biological gender, not sexual
orientation. That is in conflict with
guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Obama’s
leadership.

We will hear the old canard that the DOJ is applying the
letter of the law, Gorsuch-like. Perhaps. And the case would appear to apply to
so-called “religious freedom” laws, as well as bathroom bills and some public
school issues.

Actually, you could make a logical case that the law applies
to transgender if you accept the idea that transgender has a biological basis
(which is almost certainly true).

But on the religious freedom bills, we’re left back to
wondering what religious employers or churches really want to accomplish with
their discrimination, beyond the shallow arguments about textual literalism (or
for Catholics, protecting a celibate priesthood under attack from all the abuse
cases). It seems to have something to do
with a fear that men are getting less interested in getting married and having
children at all. That sounds like what
Putin fears. Try this article.

But if the courts agree with Sessions, there can be more pressure in Congress to resume debate on ENDA.

In other news, Lambda Legal and Outserve-SLDN say they will sue if the Pentagon starts to discharge existing transgender service members. I have a feeling that the only action taken by the Pentagon may be to stop paying for sexual reassignment treatment, but even that might get challenged legally.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance an SAGE, Advocacy and
Services for LGBT Elders, sponsored an information forum at the Arlington Mill
community center on Columbia Pike Wednesday night, July 26.

The presenter, a PhD (I didn’t get the name) went over all the
terminology, especially for transgender, fluid, and intersex.

She also went over what gay life was life pre-Stonewall and
said younger gay adults (as in the discos) had no clue as to the sacrifices
that had preceded them.

There was a general impression in the audience, and
especially in the remarks from Bruce Hightower, that outside the Beltway and a
few large cities, LGBT seniors tend to hide when living in senior centers and
are at best ignored as to their social needs.
The presenter talked about setting up communal housing spaces in about
15 cities, many in the Midwest and south.
She said there were more proportionally more families raising children
headed by older same-sex couples in the South than in other parts of the
country.

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Donald Trump just announced, in a series of three
tweets, that transgender people may not servce in the United States military in
any capacity. The tweets cite tremendous
military costs (not really true) and disruption (not really true either) and
claim he consulted with Mattis. Trey
Yingst of OANN has embedded the tweets at this link.

Here is the text: “ After consultation with my Generals and military experts,
please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow
Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our
military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming. .victory and
cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that
transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.” There are reports that sexual reassignment surgery costs the military about $2.4 million per case (Rand) which sounds excessive as an estimate.

It's noteworthy that Trump tweeted what amounts to an EO by the Commander in Chief from his personal twitter account first (rather than the POTUS account, where the tweets do not [yet] appear).

The announcement would
appear to require the discharge of openly transgender soldiers now. There are between 4000-6000 transgender people on active duty right now (maybe that includes reserves and NG). Some observers say the discharges cannot happen until the services formally rewrite new policies.

It does not appear that the announcement applies to
cis-gender gay troops, and the repeal from 2011 still stands. But cis-gender
gay troops don’t require any accommodation (they must remain fit for duty by
ordinary military medical standards). I am aware of one gay person, in the Army, officer grade, deployed to Afghanistan now.

It is not clear why Trump did not wait for Mattis’s
review to be completed in January 2018.

Chris Johnson of the Washington Blade has a story
here. The Washington Post now has a detailed story by Abby Phillip and and Thomas Gibbons-Neff.

Kristin Beck (“Lady Valor”), a transgender woman
(female-to-male) had been a Navy Seal and is viewed as capable of public office
in the defense area given her detailed knowledge (but only as a civilian
employee).She did not start transition until
after completion of service.In 1993,
radio interviewer Scott Peck presented a woman who had left the Navy after 15
years to undergo transition and was rehired into the same Naval intelligence
position as a civilian analyst with the same clearances. There are reports that the Navy Seals are allowing
one woman to join now (the film “G.I. Jane” from 1997).

Perhaps the narrative of Chelsea Manning has left a
bad impression.

The tweet could pose a question for Selective Service
Registration, which right now requires registration according to original gender (story). Trump’s order did not consider this
immediate complication. There has been some talk of (and actually a bill) forcing
women to register for Selective Service, so that would implicitly include
transgender.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House Communications
Director, says he has donated to gay rights causes, as in a story by Chris
Johnson today in the Washington Blade, link.

The story circulated on Twitter in the middle of the day
today, shortly before Trump’s press conference, while the Senate was huddling
on its health care fiasco.

Scaramucci has said he will fire leakers, which is not an
issue particularly relevant to gay issues.

There is increased concern in the gay male community how
potential Obamacare “repeal” bills will
affect coverage for Truvalda. I’m told
that more younger men are taking it regularly than I had thought.

Monday, July 24, 2017

California congresswoman Susan Davis has run an op-ed in
Cosmopolitan over her flying a rainbow Pride flag outside her office and the
lawsuit against her for doing so,link.

The San Diego Union Tribune reports that the lawsuit in
federal district court in Washington DC maintains that homosexuality is somehow
a “religion”, a ridiculous and frivolous assertion. Three other Congresspersons are also included in the complaint.

Most of the issue is devoted to gay weddings in Virginia. On
p. 6, publisher Justin Ayars offers his own letter, followed by an editorial “WhyQ Weddings?” by Jesse LaVancher.

Later there is a QA page by Gretchen Gales, and then two
book reviews. One of these is for “Before
I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise” by Elizabeth E. Schwartz
and Jim Obergefell (Afterword), review y Terri Schlicjenmeyer, who then reviews
“The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic
Infleunce, and one more review of “Raising the Transgender Child” by Dr.
Michele Angello and Alisa Bowman.

On p. 50 Mr. Ayars offers an exclusive interview with Gavin
Grimm. I did get an inquiry to do this
myself by email (which led to a discussion about press credentials).

Soon I will review the massive book by Nathaniel Frank, “Awakening:
How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America”.

The May 2017 AGLA News has a piece by Andrew Huggins on “Three
Ways to Use Social Media to Spread Your Message” The third point challenges the writer to ask
himself “So what?” or “Who cares?” That
may relate to activism, or to publications (or blogs) that are directed to specific
populations and not as “general commentary”.
Note AGLA’s anti-bullying link.

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Michael Lavers reports on the visit of a gay Nigerian
minister to Foundry United Methodist Church near Dupont Circle in Washington DC
in the Blade, story here.

The pastor is Rev. Jide Macaulay, who has also led a “straight”
married life and produced a son.

He had also two men from South Africa in his home in London,
when he was introduced to MCC London (which I attended once, in 1982).

He described the deteriorating climate in many sub-Saharan
African countries since the middle 2000’s when Nigeria passed its vitriolic
anti-gay law, prohibiting gays from meeting, disguised as an anti-gay marriage
law. He described a world of violence and kidnappings.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

DC Center Global has posted, effective early July 13,
another request for hosting housing assistance in the Washington DC area. The
details are in this post on the Facebook pagehere (or here on the DC Center site). Similar stories had appeared in the
Washington Blade and were reported here in August and October 2016.

I have considered the possibility of hosting, but at the
present time I am considering the possibility of selling the inherited trust
house that I am in. This could mean
relocation out of the DC area this fall.

I will need to examine this opportunity
thoroughly before I could look at hosting activities again. It is discussed on my main blog (“BillBoushka”
on the Blogger profile) on July 5, 2017.
I can’t really say anything further right now about this, but I will
inform everyone of my plans as various issues are resolved in the next two
months or so.

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